I can't understand these sentences.Help!
1.Now the trumpet summons us again,not as a call to bear arms,though arms we need;not as a call to battle,though embattle we are;but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle,year in and year out,"rejoicing in hope;patient in tribulation,"a struggle against the common enemies of man:cyranny,poverty,disease,and war itself.
2.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance,that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?Will you join in that in that historic effort?
3....only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
4.When I stand in a big library like the Library of Congress and gaze round me at the millions of books,I feel a sober earnest delight hard to convey except by a metaphor.

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I can't understand these sentences.Help!
1.Now the trumpet summons us again,not as a call to bear arms,though arms we need;not as a call to battle,though embattle we are;but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle,year in and year out,"rejoicing in hope;patient in tribulation,"a struggle against the common enemies of man:cyranny,poverty,disease,and war itself.
2.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance,that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?Will you join in that in that historic effort?
3....only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
4.When I stand in a big library like the Library of Congress and gaze round me at the millions of books,I feel a sober earnest delight hard to convey except by a metaphor.

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1.如今那号角又在召唤我们了。它不是在号召我们扛起武器----尽管我们也需要武器，不是在号召我们去参战----尽管我们也准备应战，而是在号召我们肩负起一场长期的艰苦斗争的重任，年复一年，“忍受困苦，向往未来”，为反对人类共同的敌人----暴政、贫困、疾病以及战争本身----而斗争。
2.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?Will you join in that historic effort? 我们能否建立一个把东西南北联在一起的伟大的全球联盟来对付这些敌人，以确保人类享有更为富有成效的生活呢？你是否愿意参加这一具有历史意义的行动呢？
3.In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. 在世界漫长的历史上，只有少数几代人能在自由面临极大危险的时刻被赋予保卫自由的任务。

这些句子是出自肯尼迪的就职演说吧，不好意思，第四句没见过。

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